220 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 



our esteemed Associate, Mr. Walter Laidlaw, Custodian of 

 Jedburgh Abbey. I cannot forbear also chronicling the 

 decease of our old friend, Rev. Manners Hamilton A. 

 Graham, Minister of Maxton. As a non-resident, he 

 latterly resigned membership, yet his interest in our 

 proceedings never flagged. His grandfather, Doctor 

 George Lawrie, Minister of Loudoun, was the friend 

 and patron of Robert Burns. In fact, it was he who per- 

 suaded Burns, after his passage was taken for the West 

 Indies, to remain in our island, and so probably saved 

 for after generations of Scotsmen, some of the Ayrshire 

 bard's best creations. Our friends are fallen out of the 

 race ; let others step forward and take their places ! 

 Thus the torch of truth is handed on from age to age. 

 The subjects open to a President of the Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Club for his annual Address are 

 Choice of many and varied. Glancing through the 

 a Subject. eighty Addresses delivered since its founda- 

 tion, it is not easy, however, to make a 

 selection. Our Ovidian motto : " Mare et tellus, et, quod 

 tegit omnia, coelum" is indeed all-embracing ; yet the title 

 Berwickshire Naturalists is somewhat misleading, since 

 our constitution binds us to investigate "the Antiquities," 

 no less than " the Natural History of Berwickshire and 

 its vicinage." To-day, I propose to devote 

 *^ ° the major portion of my Address to the 



c 1 Campanology of the Eastern Borders, 



eastern . , , i ^ i „ . • , 



Borders usmg the word ' Campanology in its less 



technical sense, as covering the comparative 

 study of Church Bells. 



The origin and early history of Bells is wrapped in 



mystery, and beyond our purview. Enough 

 ur urc ^^ know that they have played a prominent 

 Bells— their , . ,. . ^ \ -^ ^ ^, 



part in religious ceremonies, ever since they 



„ ... tinkled, all golden, at the skirts of the High 



Mediaeval Pi'iest's vestments as he entered the Hol}^ of 



Modern Holies. Rudely speaking, Scottish church 



bells may be divided into three classes, the 



